Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1938 — Page 6
By Eddie Ash
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LATEST LINE ON DERBY ELITE
RACE OF CENTURY AT BELMONT
: ATEST Kentucky Derby quotations on the bookies’ first - twelve: Stagehand, 4-2-1; Fighting Fox, 7-4-2; Menow, _ 84-2; and with longer odds on Nedayr, Lawrin, Tiger, Dauber, Sun Egret, Bull Lea, Cant Wait, The Chief and Mountain Ridge.
Stagehand, the winter book favorite, is due at Church-.
hill Downs on Monday to begin his prep for the May 7 classic. . . . The big event is just four weeks-away and Louisville is beginning to doll up for the 8ccasion. : Interest in the Derby will be as keen as ever and a record attendance is predicted by persons close to the horse situation. . . . It will be the 64th renewal ... From the year of its establishment in 1875 the Derby has never missed. : ‘The Churchhilt Downs spring meeting begins Saturday, April 30, and closes Monday, May 30. 2 = = hk on = NOW that War Admiral and Seabiscuit have been matched in a Race of the Century, the 1938 summer _* ‘season on the American turf probably will set an assortment of records. . . . The two outstanding descendants of Man o’ War are to meet at Belmont Park, New York, in September, and if both are at the peak of form on the date of the event, it’s a safe guess thatthe wagering will set a new high for a two-horse affair. California and its rich movie colony are sure to back their Seabiscuit to the limit while the Middle West and East probably will dig deep and get aboard the War Ad- ’ miral bandwagon. . . . Months remain before the classic is staged and the buildup for this “natural” is expected to exceed any single sports attraction of the past. * Crowd capacity at Belmont is approximately 20,000, which is far short of what the demand will be. . .. Tickets will. be a scarce article. . . . The bugle sounds. « . . They’re coming out! . . . At the post. . . . They're off! . . . With the nation at a standstill. . . . Listening in. s = 8 2 2 = ;
Go SUHR, Pittsburgh first baseman, played 822 successive Na-
tional League games without a miss to set the senior circuit's -
endurance record, but his biggest baseball thrill dates back to his freshman year with the Pirates when he hit Burleigh Grimes for a triple with the bases filled. . . . Joe Walsh, Boston Bees’ infield rookie, is a twin. . . . The other half, Eddie, is also a rising young ball player, The inéapacitation of Babe Phelps, Brooklyn's No. 1 catcher, unfolded a lot of hidden facts in Dogger pasts, such as that Gibby Brack, previously considered entirely a outfielder, got his first pro offer from Louisville when he was catching for a Chicago sandlot team.
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: QLINcING SAMMY BAUGH of football fame who is a candidate for the shortfield berth with the Columbus Red Birds, will be . . He's going to Ft. Worth by
missing from the Flock a few days. . . . Columbus scribes say he’s
plane. . . . Wedding bells are calling. . looking good in the field. ! Short, short story—On Tuesday Bill Sodd delivered a pinch home run for Cleveland before howling students of his Alma Mammy, Texas A. and M—On Wednesday Bill Sodd was released by Cleveland to Oklahoma City. pe: 8 # = } 8 #2 8
r battling Ripper Collins for the first base job, Phil Cavarretta has turned homer-hitter again along the exhibition trail. .. . Phil broke in with a home run his first time at bat with the Cubs, Sept. 25, 1934. . . . It beat the Reds, 1 tor 0. Peaches Davis, Reds’ righthander, was the despair of Florida photographers trying to get pictures of pitchers taking windups. . . . Davis hasn’t taken a windup for two years... . He found it helps his control to just hdul off and let it go. ° : : 2 8 = 2 2»
'KECHNIE has reconstructed the Cincinnati outfield. . . . Ival Goodman is the only holdover. . . . Bill has placed Dusty Cooke, former Yankee, in right, and Harry Craft, up from Syracuse, in center. . . . Lee Gamble, lefthanded hitter from Syracuse, and Tony Bongiovanni, a .322 hitter for Portland, are the extras. Cooke has knocked around a lot and at 31 gets his last chance in the majors. . . . He impressed with Minneapolis in 1937 with a .345 average. . . . Craft is a 23-year-old lad from Mississippi, whom Bill Terry tried hard to get in a trade for Gas Mancuso. . . . Harry is extremely fast. : . 28 N 2 x2 == SEWELL, veteran catcher With the Chicago White Sox, does ; not agree with John B. Foster, editor of Spalding’s Guide, in his choice of Lou Gehrig as the first baseman on an all-time all-star team, and instead of one modern player, Sewell would pick three: Mickey Cochrane, catcher; Bob Grove, pitcher, gnd Charley Gehringer, second baseman. Sewell believes George Sisler rates over Gehrig, declaring: “Gehrig is a mediocre fielder and not a smart ball player. He makes a dumb
play every few games. Sisler was a picture out there fielding that bag
and they never came smarter. Furthermore, he also was a fine hitter and great base runner. He was the toughest man I ever tried to throw out at second.”
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Bartow Bids: Farewell to Local Club
Due in Bowling Green on Wednesday; Team Has Won 10 Out of 16.
Times Special TALLAHASSEE, Fla. April 9. — Ray Schalk’s Indianapolis Indians, on the first leg of their trek to the North, invaded Florida's capital city today to tackle Charlie Dressen’s Nashville Vols of the Southern Association. Dressen piloted the Cincinnati Reds last year and returned to his old love after the Queen City turned him out. } Incidentally, Fay Murray, a former Indianapolis businessman, is the owner of the Nashville club. Schalk’s Redskins said farewell to Bartow, their training base, last night, and the fans there arranged a friendly sendoff. The Tribesters won 10 games in 16 starts while working out of Bartow and Chieftain Schalk is proud of the record. The Hoosiers are booked in Montgomery, Ala., tomorrow, where the Southeastern League team will be played, and on Monday the Schalkmen have a date with the Southern Association Barons in Birmingham. So far the Indians have had the best of weather and no postponements on their spring exhibition schedule but Alabama is another state and the athletes are wary of what is in store for them when they invade the old South. Next Tuesday in an open date on fhe Tribe card. The Indians’ final exhibition tilt will be on Wednesday at their 1937 training camp Bowling Green, Ky. where they are scheduled to oppose Fred Haney’s Toledo Mud Hens, runners-up in the American Association race last season. : Pilot Schalk will lead his men out of Bowling Green late Wednesday night and head for Indianapolis, where the finishing touches will be put on the “prep” for the opening day game against Minneapolis on Saturday, April 16. The lid-lifter is just a week away and the Tribesters are anxious @o get going in the pennant fight. They drew a tough opponent for a starter and the matching of strategy by Managers Schalk and Bush is expected to result in a lively encounter. :
Benna and Bess Star Amateurs
Local boxing followers are e€Xpected to see the best amateur engagement ever fought here Thursday night when Milton Bess boxes Johnny Benna of Terre Haute at Tomlinson Hall, Although a lightweight, Bess fought in the recent Times-Legion Golden Gloves eliminations as a welterweight, winning his ‘way to the Chicago finals and then gaining a place as alternate on the Chicago team which fought at New York recently. Benna won the national Golden lightweight championship and went East for the intercity clashes, losing to the New York lightweight while ‘ Bess, fighting as a lightweight alternate, won his bout. Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the world, will referee the match, as well as four other fights on the program sponsored by the Tillman H. Harpole Post of the American Legion.
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Armory Grappling Card Is Completed
Jim Coffield, 219, Kansas City “meanie,” and Ray Villmer, 218; popular young St. Louis grappler, have signed for a special one-fall bout with an hour’s time limit for the Armory wrestling card Tuesday night. They drew in 30 minutes last Tuesday. Main go action promising aft unusual amount of “heat,” sends Abe (Half Pint) Coleman, 205, after the scalp of Dorve (Iron Man) Roche, 220. Coleman, Jewish heavyweight champ, hopes to “even up” with the former Illinois coal miner. Dorve won a close one from Abe on March 28. Abe failed to get any place with his protest that Roche used a “choke” Kold to gain the decision. Stacey Hall, 180, Ohio light heavy, and Silent Rattan, 179, local deaf mute, clash in the other encounter.
Captains Named For Valpo Teams
VALPARAISO, Ind. April 9 (U. P.).—Captains for Valparaiso University’s football and basketball teams were chosen for the next school yedr at a banquet here. . John Dale, Chesterton, and Ed Sullivan of East Chicago were elected cocaptains of the football team, and Carl Ruehr of Chicago will lead the cagers. The Uhlans, state college basketball champions, elected Gebrge Roedel of Saginaw, Mich., as honorary captain for his performance last season.
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Training Camp News
By United Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 9—The Giants and the Cleveland Indians parted company here today, the National League champions meeting the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association while Cleveland tackled the Meridian, Miss., club. Idle the past two days because of bad weather the major league téams will resume their exhibition series in Paducah, Ky., on Monday. ®
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 9.— The world champion Yankees made their one Arkansas stop here today, meeting the Little Rock" Travelers of the Southern Association. Bad weather forced them to cancel exhibitions in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April 9.— The ‘Dodgers came here today to meet Jacksonville's Tars of the South Atlantic League in their first game after breaking training camp at Clearwater, Fla.
- SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 9.— The Browns meet their first major league opponent of the year today when they clash with the Cubs. The Brownies have won ‘15 straight against minor semipros and . college nines. Their game with the Cubs was canceled because of bad ‘weather yesterday and will be played in a douvble-header Sunday. The double offering will end the Browns five weeks’ stay in San Antonio. :
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ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., April 9—~The Rex Sox and Reds will ‘play their seventh exhibition game of the spring here today— weather permitting. Rained out for the last two days, the Reds lead the series 3-2, and one of “their tilts ended in a tie.
ALBANY, Ga. April 9.-The Bees met Albany’s Georgia-Florida League team here today in an exhibition game. The Bees scored a 9-1 victory over Savannah’s SouthAtlantic nine yesterday.
NEW IBERIA, La., April 9.—The Cardinals made the first Louisiana stop of their training itinerary today, meeting New Iberia’s Evangeline League team. The Cards breezed to a 12-1 decision’ over Mobile yes-
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 9. —The Phillies played Chattanooga’s Southern Association team today. The Phils easily vanquished Birmingham’s Barons, 8-1, yesterday.
6 MATCHES BOOKED FOR BUTLER NETTERS
In addition to the state collegiate tournament which will be held at Earlham College next month, six engagements have been scheduled for Butler University’s tennis team. Handicapped by lack of material, |the Bulldog racquet wielders have only two veterans from last year's team. They are Don Wagner and Roger Hooker. New candidates include David Thompson, Charles White and Robert PFattig, juniors, and Arthur Mundt and Harold- Howenstine, sophomores. sin The team will open its season, April 21, against Cincinnati Univer{sity. The remainder of the sched{ule is: April 29, Wabash; April Earlham; May 6, at Earlham; May
of the year. In their first the Pirates took a 4-2 deci- . They have six left to play,
received from Muncie and Michigan
PT. WAYNE, Ind. April 9 (U. P.). —Four cities will be represented. in the state Y. M. C. A. swimming meet here tomorrow. Huntington and Ft. Wayne. have entered full teams while single entries have been
THREE-I LOOP MEETING CALLED FOR APRIL 17
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 9 (U. P.)—Tom Fairweather, president of the Three-I League, has called a meeting of league officials for April 17 in Springfield, Ill. General problems relating to the opening of the season will be discussed, he said. : Teams in the circuit are Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and Clinton, Iowa, Moline, Decatur, Bloomington and Springfield, Ill, and Evansville, Ind.
DUNLAP PLAYS STRAFACI PINEHURST, N. C., April 9 (TU, Pp) —New York and Brooklyn vied today for the North and South amateur golf = championship as George T. Dunlap Jr, New York, teed off against 21-year-old Frank Strafaci of Brooklyn in the finals. Dunlap was favored.
Johnny Riddle Named: on All-Star Rookie Team
By GEORGE KIRKSEY » United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 9—If a baseball scout could get: the powers of Aladdin’s lamp bestowed on him and tour the spring. training camps ‘with the right to select any rookies that caught his eye he could gather quite a baseball club. The writer, after such a tour believes that the following Would come close to being the “all-star rookie team” he would ck as the season opens: © DE Base—Frank McCormick, the big Reds’ first baseman from Cincinnati Reds. New York City; Ken Keltner, the | 22000 Base~doe Gordon, New | belting third baseman who comes up | A to the Indians with only two years Sp -Frank Croucher, De- of 'o i i baseball ex rience: Third Base—Ken Keltner, Cleve- | Harry Craft, the fleet-footed Reds’ gt SA ot Oe nd ars or _| two y er ’ - i ed i southpaws, and Jim Bagby, Centerneld—Harry Craft, Cincin- [508 of the old-time Cleveland pitch-
nati Reds. Rightfield—Enos Slaughter, St.| One competent baseball
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St. Louis Cardinals, employed the ' other day when he said to me: : “Sammy Baugh will be at third base for us when the season opens. He is one of the grea _| players I ever saw. As a fielder I never saw his like. You can’t shoot a rifle past him. He's a fine baseball player.” ke 3 I ran, not walked, to the nearest typewriter and wrote a story in which I said that Frankie Frisch had settled on Baugh as his third baseman. = : -
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Louis Cardinals. Catchers — Willard Hershberger, Cincinnati Reds; John Riddle, Boston Bees. hes Pitchers—Atley Donald, New York Yankees; Jim Bagby, Boston Red Sox; CHurlie Wagner, Boston Red Sox; Max Macon, St. Louis Cardinals; Max Lanier, St. Louis Cardinals; Bill Lohrman, New York Giants; Joe Krakauskas, Washing‘ton Senators. : All of these newcomers
will fade when the pressure
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Syracuse on Cincin= nati, as _— greatest “find” of the jor leaguer hit and throw and runs like a deer. “Other g newcomers not mentioned in this list are Suiieljers
rates Craft, who started last season |
He looks every inch a maright now. He can field, |
Athletes Talking Strange ‘Tongue, Henry Complains
Linguist Puzzled to Find Baugh Sent to Minors | ~ After Lavish Praise by Frisch.
By HENRY M'LEMORE 1 ( United Press Staff Correspondent ACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 8 (U. P).—As a man who has always prided himself on his ability as a linguist, it has become a matter of
deep concern to me of late to find that I apparently am unable to tell what an athlete means by what he says,
Athletes must be speaking an ® I quoted
kim as saying hé would like to play in the National Open Championship. : ‘But T ‘was wrong again. That wasn’t what he meant at all, and he issued a statement saying that my interpretation of what he said was all wrong.. Maybe it was. Maybe what he meant was that he was going to start at third base for the Cardinals, and that Sammy Baugh would like to play in the Open if a rule qualifying former champions ‘was passed. : I give up!
Change Opposed - By Clevenger
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'Latin—E Pluribus Unium. - Greek—Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu. | French—A La Carte, A La Mode,
- German—Deutschland Uber Alles
| Italian—Ravioli Gondola. Scotch—Hoot mon White Horse.
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Times Special . BLOOMINGTON, April 9.—Zora G. Clevenger, Indiana University athletic director, today opposed a Pro plan to shift the Indiana=Prue football game to Indianapolis. : “The game belongs on the school campuses,” he said, “and I think it should and will stay there, even though the complete and final plans | have not been submitted yet.”
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Prisch’s language, for now I see |merce, which wanted the event ‘where Frisck has sent Baugh to ; Columbus, because he is not sea'soned enough for the Cardinals.
staged in the Butler Bowl in 1939. Chief argument of the committee At first, I thought my hearing | many fans—50, uld see the game if it were played at Butler, tince the football stadiums at Indiana and Purdue will not seat ' | more than 25,000. : : 3 ———————— EE ———— 4 - PRO GRID GAME CARDED ¥{ CHICAGO, April 9 (U. P.)-~The = | Chicago and Green ‘Bay
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State Title Won By Greenberger
Phil Greenberger reigned as Indiana three-cushion billiard champion for the first time today, victor by two points over Harry Cooler, veteran titleholder, in a 150-point challenge match which ended last night at Cooler’s parlor. . Greenberger piled up a 17-point margin in the first two 50-point blocks of the match and won when Cooler’s last-block rally fell’ short. Cooler took last night's block, 65 to 50, in 123 innings but sealed his defeat when he discarded caution with only two points to go’and failed to connect from a difficult lie. ! . The young star won the first two blocks, 50 to 36 and 50 to 47.
Softball
The Ajax Beet softball team will play the William H. Block Company team in a practice game tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at Finch Park, 600 South State Ave. The following players are asked to appear, weather permitting: Ashcraft, Pallikan, Wolfe, Blasingame, Adams, Morrison, Frantz, Stanley, Briggs, Wenning, Ostermeyer, Stauch, Wolfe, Foust, Eversole, Freije, Williams and
Bisesi. | : ; " The Ajax club would like to book out of town night games with teams in Anderson, Kokomo, Marion, Shel-:
byville, Brazil and Seymour. Prac-}
tice games are sought for the lalter part of April. For games write James Coleman, 1742 S. Delaware St., or call LI, 1200.
Smith-Hassler-Sturm will organize two church leagues to play at the new Belmont Softball Stadium. St. John’s, Little Flower and St. Roch’s take notice. Call Floyd Hassler at Lincoln 1200.
Holcomb-Hoke will practice at Willard lowing players are asked to report at 2 p. m.: Reidy, Carver, Shields,
Mulhern, O'Connor, Sheehan, Bob
Connor, Bill Connor, Adam Walsh,
Golay, Constantino, Waddle, Van Deren, Bud Hook and Schnorr.
Ajax Beer will play Wm. H. Block
tomorrow at Finch Park, starting
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Race Classic Seems Certain For Belmont
Owners . of Seabiscuit and Admiral Accept Terms For $100,000 Match.
NEW YORK, April 9 (U. P.).— Unless some one throws a monkey wrench into the works, War Admiral and Seabiscuit, champion race
horses of 1937, Jill meet in a $100,000 match race—winner take all—at Belmont Park in September. The “race of the century” was vir= tually clinched for the New York track when Samuel D. Riddle, owner of War Admiral, agreed to it yesterday. C. S. Howard, Seabiscuit’s owner, also agreed tentatively by long distance telephone from California. Riddle’s preference for Belmont
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lington for a midsummer match. Arlington’s offer of $100,000 was matched by the Westchester Racing Association and the New Yorkers did not reserve the right to include - the Kentucky Derby winner as the Arlington Jockey Club did. Needing only signatures to a contract to make it a certainty, this race will qutshine any other twohorse gallop in American thoroughbred history, and that includes the historic Zev-Papyrus, Man O’ WarSir Barton, Hourless-Omar Khayam and Salvator-Tenny classics. Two horses never raced for $100,000 before. War Admiral, winner of the “triple crown” and 3-year-old cham= pion of 1937, probably will be a slight favorite. The little brown son of Man O’ War is undefeated in his last 10 starts. Howard's Seabiscuit, last year’s handicap title holder, won his last start at Agua Caliente March 27, but was nosed out in the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap by Stagehand.
Suggestions Accepted
In his conference with Herbert Bayard Swope, New York Racing who put over the long-awaited match race for Belmont, Riddle had only a few suggestions. These included that the race shouid be run on a “fast” track, which should be to Seabiscuit’s liking; that a barrier ine stead of a starting gate should be used; and that Seabiscuit should have the choice of positions. Both owners agreed to the classic distance of a mile and a quarter, and both horses will carry 126 pounds unless the owners agree privately to a lesser burden. j The weight handicap was one of the big reasons why Riddle and Howard favored Belmont over Arlington. ° The Chicago group wanted to reserve the right to make it a three-horse race in case Maxwell Howard's Stagehand won the Kentucky Derby. : As a 3-year-old, Stagehand ‘would have to carry only 114 pounds against the 4-year-old Admiral and the 5-year-old Biscuit. The latter was burdened with 30 more pounds than Stagehand in the Santa Anita which Stagehand won hy a nose.
24 PUPILS ATTEND BASKETBALL SCHOOL
Twenty-four grade school pupils have been drilled in the fundamentals of basketball during the past week in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church gym under the direction of James Reed, Church team coach. /Special instruction was given by Kenneth L. Peterman, Shortridge coach, and Tom Woods, coach of the Shortridge frosh. The scHool will continue for the balance of the month with shooting and passing, footwork, pivot plays and reverses and defense play being emphaSized. :
Return of Karakas Boosts Hawk Hopes
CHICAGO, April 9 (U. P.)— - Chances of a victory for the bate tered Chicago Blackhawks in the third game of the Stanley Cup playoffs with the Toronto Maple Leafs brightened today when it was an-
nounced that Goalie Mike Karakas
and Forward Mush March would be action tomorrow night. suffered a fractured big toe in the last game of the semi
finals against the New York Amer-
icans last Sunday and was forced
| to forego the first two games of the finals. A steel splint and a specially
designed shoe have been fashioned for him. : : Return of Karakas solved a situation that threatened to leave the Hawks without a goalie. Alfie Moore was declared ineligible after leading the Hawks to a 3-1 victory in the
‘first cup final. Rookie Paul Goodman, who filled in dufing the second game which Chicago lost, 5-1,
also was found to be ineligible.
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